- King: A Filmed Record. . . Montgomery to Memphis
On the week of Martin Luther King Day, both Black Cinema House (on Sunday at 4 PM) and Block Cinema at Northwestern University (on Thursday, January 23, at 5 PM) will host free screenings of King: A Filmed Record . . . Montgomery to Memphis, a long-unavailable 1970 documentary about the great civil rights leader. Comprised mainly of newsreel footage and devoid of offscreen narration, the film traces King’s career as a public figure, beginning with his involvement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and ending with his assassination in 1968. In direct-cinema fashion, it features numerous on-the-ground sequences depicting the civil rights marches in which King took part.
